lobo

• loafer (see that entry for more)

From American Spanish lobo (“wolf”).

lobo (plural lobos)

1. (Southwestern US dialectal) a wolf
   • 1983, David Earl Brown, The Wolf in the Southwest: the making of an endangered species:

     We used to pay a $20.00 bounty a head on lobos for a good many years, but stopped it because it was abused. Lobo scalps from Arizona, [...]

   • 2001, Joseph A. West, Johnny Blue and the Hanging Judge, page 43:

     "That may be so," Donnelly allowed, "but there desperate men around these parts, especially wolfers who have been collecting bounties for lobo scalps since the big snows of the Hard Winter."

• Often used in compound with "wolf": "lobo wolf".

• BOLO, bloo, bolo, bool, loob, obol

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/
• Rhymes: -obo

lobo (accusative singular lobon, plural loboj, accusative plural lobojn)

1. (biology) lobe

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈloβo̝/

lobo m (plural lobos)

1. wolf

• “lobo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “lobo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “lobo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “lobo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lobo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

lobo (plural lobos)

1. lobo

lobo m (plural lobi)

1. (anatomy, botany, architecture) lobe

• bolo, oblò

lobō

1. dative singular of lobus
2. ablative singular of lobus

From Old Portuguese lobo, from Latin lupus (“wolf”), from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lúpus, a borrowing.

• lôbo (obsolete)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.βu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.bu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.bo/
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

lobo m (plural lobos, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

1. wolf (a wild canid)

• lupino

Borrowed from New Latin lobus, from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “earlobe”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.βu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.bu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.bo/
• Hyphenation: lo‧bo

lobo m (plural lobos)

1. (anatomy) lobe (division of the brain)

From Latin lupus, from an Osco-Umbrian language, from Proto-Italic *lukʷos, metathesis of Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos. Doublet of lupus, a borrowing.

• Cognate with French loup, Italian lupo, Portuguese lobo, Romanian lup.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlobo/, [ˈloβo]

lobo m (plural lobos, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

1. wolf
2. (Spain, dated) drunkenness

• (drunkenness): See Thesaurus:borrachera.

• “lobo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

From Spanish lobo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlobo]

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lobo

1. balloon
2. wolf

• IPA^(key): /lóːɓo/

lobo

1. that; class 14 distal demonstrative.

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “loɓo”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “loɓo (3.9)”